Scaled-Down Success: Programmable Logic Tiles Could Form Basis of Nanoprocessors
Wednesday, February 9, 2011 - 18:30
in Physics & Chemistry
In the race to build ever-smaller microchips, researchers have tinkered for more than a dozen years with an end-run technique that would shrink things to previously unrealizable scales. Rather than etching away semiconductors with photolithography to create circuits and processors--a top-down process that is limited by the light wavelength used--bottom-up fabrication could yield even smaller processors by stringing together nanoscale building blocks into functional devices. [More]